INDEX

ABERNETHY on Medical practice, 237.

African Bath, 142.

Air-Hot, first applied as Curative of disease, 219.1

American Baths, 148.

Anatomy discouraged, 8; the basis of Medical Science, 11.

Anæsthetic agents, history of, 286.

Angina Pectoris, the Bath in, 302.

Animals, domesticated, applicability of Bath to, 419; their fondness for,

Balbirnie, Dr., on the invigorating action of the Bath, 328; on the excretory

organs, 400; on change of climate, 403.

Bardsley, Dr., on Hydrophobia, 429.

Barklay, Dr., on Medical Errors, 261.

Barracks, the Bath in, 417.

Barrenness removable by the Bath, 431;

Barter, Dr., established Hydropathy in Ireland, 166; Revives the Hot-air
Bath, 169; Statement by Mr. Urquhart, 170; Opposition to the Bath,
171; Imperfections of the first Bath, 171; Improvement introduced,
173; Extension of the Bath, 175; Experience of, 449.

Bath, Hot-Air, supposed origin of, 115, 120; established in Britain by the
Romans, 133; Russian, 136; Fin, 140; Egyptian, 141; African, 142;
Arab, 143; Chinese, 145; Japanese, 146; American, 148; Mexican 151;
Irish, 152; its universality and antiquity, 155; decline of in Britain,
Revival by Dr. Barter, 169.

156;

Bath, Turkish, established in Ireland, 66; History of, 115.

Curative powers of, Erasmus Wilson on, 155, 310; Dr. Armstrong,
166; Dr. Sheppard, 172; Dr. Goolden, 302; Dr. Jeaffreson, 303;
Dr. Gosse, 309; Dr. Thudichum, 310, 328.

Action of on diseased internal surfaces, 301.

As applicable to the Lower Animals, 416;

Early writers on, Joubert, 159; Denman, Cameron, Flayfair, Count
Rumford, 160; Clarke, 162; Gower, 164.

As preservative of Health, 207; as preventive of Disease, 211; its
habitual use why good, 325; does not weaken, 327; but invigorates,
329, 432; Reasons why every house should have one, 360.

Not a panacea, 70, 363.

Objections to, Sir Dominic Corrigan errors, 297; it gives cold, 315;
Dr. Richardson's folly, 322; Professor O'Connor, 340; objections
generally how to be overcome, 349.

Right construction of, 298; Drs. Millingen and Wollaston on, 301;
Bathing, cold, history of, 73; warm, origin of, 115; improper mode of, 315;
Sir John Forbes on, 316; Dr. Leared

Baths during the middle ages, 157.

Public, necessity for, 408.

Warm water dangerous, 328.

Baynard, Dr., on Bathing, 93.

on,

317.

Bell, Sir Chas., his great labours despised, 286.

Belfast, Town Council of, 414;

Bennett, Professor, on Licensing bodies, 20.

Bennet, Dr., his case, 354.

Berkley, Bishop, on learned men, 293.

Bernies, Dr., on transmitted disease, 402.

Bigarel, Dr., on aggravation of Disease by Drugs, 256;

"Black Death," nature and treatment of, 379; Dublin practice, 380.

Blood, circulation of, 185; Weight and composition of, 189; velocity of
circulation, 190.

Determination of to the Head, 335.

Bostock, Dr., on Drug practice, 54.

British Medical Journal on Drug practice, 52.

Broadbent, Dr., on Drugs, 52.

Bronchitis, Bath in, 302, 337.

Buison, Dr., cured of Hydrophobia, 428.

Burgess, Dr., on climate in consumption, 403.

Burns, Bath in, 308.

Butler, Dr. N. J., his singular apology for Dublin practitioners, 344.

CALOMEL, danger of, 253.
Cancer, 400.

Carmichael, Surgeon, 29.

Carr, Dr. on mercurial action, 252.
Carpenter, Dr., on perspiration, 327.

Cats, the Bath as applicable to, 426.

Cattle, advantages of the Bath for, 419; first Bath erected and tested in
pleuro-pneumonia and puerperal fever, 420; curative temperatures,
433; cost of, 437.

Plague, policy of slaughtering healthy cattle, 434.

Census of 1866, 434.

Cavalry, utility of Bath for, 417

Chardin, Sir John, 88.

Charlatanism, 55.

Chest affections, Bath in, 335, 337.

Chickens, the Bath as applicable to, 426.

Children, drugging of, 358; predispositions to disease in, 394; inheriting
disease, 401; mortality among, 412.

Chinese Bath, 145.

Chloroform, facts about, 291, note.

Cholera, Asiatic, universal failure of drugging in treatment of, 373;
Hydropathie treatment of, 376.

Clarke, Sir James, on Consumption, 394, 397, 401.

Climate, change of in Consumption delusive, 403; effects of hot and cold,
405.

Clothing, close, injurious, 320; Erasmus Wilson on, 360.

Cold, popular errors about, 220; the Bath never gives cold, 315.
Colney-Hatch Lunatic Asylum, the Bath in, 390,

Combe, Dr. A. on Medical practice, 227; on pretensions of Doctors, 231;
on preventive treatment of disease, 273.

Constipation, drug remedies for, 242.

Consumption, pulmonary, 303; Bath in, 304, 338; Drug remedies for, 394;
Sir James Clarke and Sir John Forbes on, 395; Dr. Walshe on its
treatment, 396; is hereditary, 397; Hydropathic treatment of, 400;
change of climate, 402.

Cooper, Sir Astley, on Medical practice, 15; opinion of Hunter's opponents,
286; on opposition to new truths, 293;

Corrigan, Sir Dominic, on Licensing Bodies, 30; on rejected candidates,
23; his objections to the Bath, 297; his ignorance of its action, 306;
hostility to free inquiry, 310.

Cork Lunatic Asylum, introduction of Bath in, the 385.

Cotting, Dr. on Disease, 247.

Cows, diseases of, 419, 427.

Crampton, Sir Philip, advice to a mother, 358.

Croup, Bath in, 337; a case of, 355; effects of Drug and Hydropathic
treatment, 357.

Cummins, Dr., on habitual use of the Bath, 325.

Currie, Dr., on cold affusion in fever, 99.

DARGAN, William, suggestion for improving the social condition of Ire-
land, 359.

Dickenson, Dr., on Drug treatment, 255.

Dickson, Dr., on Medical teachers, 34, 246; on ignorance of Medical men,
229; on Nosology, 234; on use of Mercury, 253; first step to rational
Medicine, 268; on Medicine materialists, 270.

Digestive process described, 184.

Diphtheria, Bath in, 337.

Diplomas, sale of, 21.

Discoverers, fate of, 291.

Disease, Pagan view of, 8; as opposed to health, 192; predispositions to,
215; Ignorance of Medical men concerning, 225; what it is, 228, 238;
cause of, 231; unity of, 232; Organic and functional, 234; local and
general, 236; Drugs in, 240; change of Type of, 246; Dr. Cotting
on, 247.

Diseased conditions few, 272.

Diseases, incurable, 363; transmitted, 401.

Dogs, curative effect of the Bath on, 424, 428.

Dropsy, 302; case of from Heart Disease, 334.

Drug diseases, 248, 256.

Medication, 38; errors of, 232; effects of, 248, 255, 259.

practitioners, general character of, 312.

Drugs, Medical ignorance of, 50; Dr. Bostock on, 227; Dr. Trall'on, 241;
action of in disease, 242, presumption that they are always injurious,
384.

Dublin, Baths in, 345.

Medical Journal on Medical Science, 15.

Practitioners, their opposition to the Bath excused, 344; treatment

of "Black Death," 380,

EATING, intemperance in, 326.

Egyptian Bath, 141.

Entozoon folliculorum, a skin parasite, 371.

Esdaile, Dr., on Medical opposition to truth, 451.

Evaporation, 203

Excretion, organs of, 191.

Exhalation, 203.

Experience, its value in Medicine, 35.

Faintness in the Bath, 335,

FARM, utility of the Bath in, 419.

Fevers, cold affusion in, 96; cases of, &c. 97; Physic and Hydropathic practice
treatment of contrasted, 275; Dr. Wollaston's experience of the Bath
in, 353.

Fife, Sir John, on the Bath, 172, 333.

Finland, Bath in, 140.

Floyer, Sir John, on Bathing, 89.

Food, difference between, and poison, 241.

Forbes, Sir John on Medical practice, 41; suggestions for reforming
Medical practice, 258; on murderous effects of Medical errors, 270;
on state of the profession, 273; on Bathing, 316; on Drugging in
Consumption, 395.

Forth, Dr., on Medicine as a Trade, 450.

Fowls, the Bath as applicable to, 426.

Frank, Dr. on Medical practice, 27.

Franklin, Benjamin, the cold air Bath, 163; on preventing disease, 213.
Fuller, Dr. on Drugs, 50.

GOOD, Dr., Mason, on Medicine, 15.

Goolden, Dr., on the Bath in disease, 302.

Gout, 400.

Government, duty of in Sanitary maiters, 413, 415.

Graham, Dr. Sylvester, on Medical Profession, 5; on human longevity,
213; on disease and its treatment, 230; on action of Nutritive organs,
245; on disease, 247; on drugging, 257; on Physic practice, 450.
Graves, Dr., on Medical experience, 36; on Mercurial irritation, 253.
Green, Dr., on climate in Consumption, 405.

Greek Baths, 115; Hot-air, 120.

Gregory, Dr., on Medical knowledge, 268.

Griffith, Dr., on Dr. Corrigan's objections to the Bath, 306, 311, note; the

Bath does not weaken, 328; his personal experience, 353.

Gull, Dr., W. on Drugging, 257.

HALL, Dr., on climate in consumption, 403.

Harvey, his persecution by the medical profession, 279; his treatment of

Gout, 282.

Hayward-Heath Lunatic Asylum, 388.